Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 61 62
Rank change year-on-year -55 +1 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,532 1,840 3,639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 4.32% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 4.64% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 962 2,724
10th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £94,375 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -50 1,395 £75,000 - 560
London +6 705 £85,000 - 256
UK excluding London -107 702 £67,500 -3.57% 350
Work from Home -35 656 £70,000 - 301
North of England -59 316 £69,310 -4.07% 125
South East -63 169 £67,500 - 92
North West -63 158 £75,000 +5.26% 88
Yorkshire -27 99 £69,310 -7.43% 27
Midlands -92 75 £68,000 +2.64% 42
South West -96 62 £52,500 -23.39% 40
North East +5 59 £65,000 -9.72% 11
West Midlands -68 54 £77,500 +10.71% 21
East of England -33 40 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -73 30 £62,500 -18.73% 17
East Midlands -74 20 £66,000 +1.54% 21
Wales -38 9 £53,171 +2.25% 10
Northern Ireland -34 8 £62,500 +25.00% 9
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.11%) Confluence
3 14 (0.91%) Apache
3 14 (0.91%) IIS
3 14 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 12 (0.78%) CMS
4 12 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (0.72%) JBoss
6 8 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.39%) WordPress
9 5 (0.33%) Drupal
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) Liferay
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Maya
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.065%) Actimize
4 1 (0.065%) Endur
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 825 (53.85%) AWS
2 632 (41.25%) Azure
3 310 (20.23%) GCP
4 250 (16.32%) Serverless
5 154 (10.05%) SaaS
6 131 (8.55%) GitHub
7 129 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
9 105 (6.85%) Amazon S3
10 94 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
11 84 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
13 69 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
14 65 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 48 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 47 (3.07%) Azure AKS
18 46 (3.00%) Datadog
19 45 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
20 41 (2.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.92%) Broadband
2 22 (1.44%) Network Security
3 11 (0.72%) DNS
4 10 (0.65%) MQTT
5 9 (0.59%) HTTP
6 8 (0.52%) VPN
7 7 (0.46%) DHCP
7 7 (0.46%) Firewall
7 7 (0.46%) Internet
8 6 (0.39%) AMQP
8 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.33%) LTE
10 4 (0.26%) DMARC
10 4 (0.26%) RFID
11 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
11 3 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.20%) SNMP
11 3 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (12.92%) NoSQL
2 191 (12.47%) MongoDB
3 183 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (6.01%) MySQL
5 81 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 79 (5.16%) Relational Database
7 71 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
8 57 (3.72%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.48%) Redis
12 31 (2.02%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.96%) Big Data
14 23 (1.50%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.78%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.65%) Power BI
17 9 (0.59%) DB2
18 7 (0.46%) Hadoop
19 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
19 6 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (12.86%) Git
2 142 (9.27%) GitLab
3 129 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.79%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.87%) JIRA
5 44 (2.87%) JUnit
6 36 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 31 (2.02%) CircleCI
8 30 (1.96%) Mockito
9 28 (1.83%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.76%) Maven
11 25 (1.63%) Claude Code
12 16 (1.04%) Selenium
12 16 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.98%) Vite
14 14 (0.91%) JMeter
15 8 (0.52%) Postman
15 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 435 (28.39%) Finance
2 304 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 162 (10.57%) Banking
4 130 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (6.07%) Law
6 86 (5.61%) Retail
7 76 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (3.52%) Financial Institution
9 46 (3.00%) Back Office
10 34 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.31%) Marketing
13 18 (1.17%) Billing
14 17 (1.11%) Advertising
14 17 (1.11%) Legal
15 14 (0.91%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.78%) Front Office
17 9 (0.59%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 521 (34.01%) Developer
2 400 (26.11%) Senior
3 319 (20.82%) Software Engineer
4 223 (14.56%) Architect
5 210 (13.71%) Lead
6 137 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 135 (8.81%) Java Developer
8 120 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 107 (6.98%) Java Engineer
9 107 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
10 99 (6.46%) .NET Developer
11 85 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 58 (3.79%) Software Developer
14 56 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
15 55 (3.59%) Lead Developer
16 50 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.07%) Senior Java Engineer
18 45 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
18 45 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (21.80%) React
2 330 (21.54%) .NET
3 276 (18.02%) RESTful
4 271 (17.69%) Node.js
5 258 (16.84%) Spring
6 232 (15.14%) Spring Boot
7 217 (14.16%) REST
8 197 (12.86%) Kafka
9 128 (8.36%) AngularJS
10 110 (7.18%) .NET Core
11 103 (6.72%) ASP.NET
12 100 (6.53%) Vue
13 86 (5.61%) gRPC
13 86 (5.61%) HTML
14 79 (5.16%) ASP.NET Core
15 76 (4.96%) CSS
16 65 (4.24%) .NET Framework
17 64 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
18 55 (3.59%) OAuth
19 53 (3.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 433 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 264 (17.23%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.94%) Over-the-Top Content
9 36 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 35 (2.28%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.50%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.44%) Blockchain
14 22 (1.44%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.31%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.31%) PKI
17 18 (1.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 92 (6.01%) Linux
2 41 (2.68%) Windows
3 20 (1.31%) Unix
4 8 (0.52%) Android
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.33%) CentOS
5 5 (0.33%) Debian
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (50.13%) CI/CD
2 634 (41.38%) Agile
3 572 (37.34%) Software Engineering
4 562 (36.68%) DevOps
5 387 (25.26%) Containerisation
6 377 (24.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 360 (23.50%) Mentoring
8 319 (20.82%) Test Automation
9 298 (19.45%) Event-Driven
10 297 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 284 (18.54%) AI
12 282 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
13 275 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 199 (12.99%) Scrum
15 184 (12.01%) Coaching
15 184 (12.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 184 (12.01%) Technical Leadership
16 174 (11.36%) Clean Code
16 174 (11.36%) TDD
17 165 (10.77%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 525 (34.27%) Java
2 405 (26.44%) Python
3 342 (22.32%) JavaScript
4 335 (21.87%) SQL
5 306 (19.97%) C#
6 245 (15.99%) TypeScript
7 128 (8.36%) Go
8 51 (3.33%) Scala
9 47 (3.07%) PHP
10 46 (3.00%) C++
11 42 (2.74%) Bash
12 31 (2.02%) C
13 28 (1.83%) Ruby
14 24 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.50%) Rust
16 21 (1.37%) PowerShell
17 19 (1.24%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.17%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.78%) Groovy
20 11 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 177 (11.55%) Security Cleared
2 171 (11.16%) Degree
3 116 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 91 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 29 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.70%) CISSP
10 23 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.72%) CISM
15 8 (0.52%) PhD
16 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.33%) ISACA
17 5 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (6.59%) QA
2 40 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.15%) GDPR
3 33 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.50%) NIST
6 21 (1.37%) SOC 2
7 14 (0.91%) GRC
8 11 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.65%) NCSC
9 10 (0.65%) WCAG
10 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) SEPA
14 2 (0.13%) SLA
15 1 (0.065%) Data Quality
System Software
1 454 (29.63%) Docker
2 15 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 488 (31.85%) Kubernetes
2 293 (19.13%) Terraform
3 87 (5.68%) Ansible
3 87 (5.68%) Grafana
4 48 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.63%) Argo
6 23 (1.50%) Kibana
7 17 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.85%) Puppet
9 12 (0.78%) Cilium
10 7 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.26%) Packer
11 4 (0.26%) Podman
11 4 (0.26%) Rancher
12 3 (0.20%) Istio
12 3 (0.20%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 164 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.24%) Google
3 53 (3.46%) Oracle
4 45 (2.94%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.57%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.24%) Splunk
8 16 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.91%) IBM
10 12 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.65%) Adobe
13 9 (0.59%) Cisco
13 9 (0.59%) Guidewire
14 8 (0.52%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.52%) SAP
15 7 (0.46%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.46%) HubSpot
15 7 (0.46%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.39%) SendGrid